{"id":35241,"date":"2024-02-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35241"},"modified":"2024-02-21T12:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:56:41","slug":"revolution-in-the-ring-2017-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35241","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Revolution in the Ring&#8221; (2017) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z022824zview_revolutioninthering.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"797\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Revolution in the Ring <\/strong><\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jason Sklaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer: <strong>Jason Sklaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Te\u00f3filo Stevenson was a Cuban amateur boxer who won Gold Medals in the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics.\u00a0 Because Cuba outlawed professional sports in 1962, Stevenson was never allowed to turn pro.\u00a0 With Stevenson&#8217;s Gold Medal wins, many wondered how he would fare against the best heavyweight boxers in the world.\u00a0 Several promoters offered Stevenson one million dollars to challenge Muhammad Ali for the title.\u00a0 The fight never happened.\u00a0 <em>Revolution in the Ring<\/em> is that story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A couple of times it appeared that the Ali vs Stevenson fight would be made.\u00a0 Fight aficionados still debate who would have won. Ali fought the best professionals in the world in battles that went 15 rounds.\u00a0 Stevenson fought the world&#8217;s best amateurs in matches that lasted 3 rounds at most.\u00a0 The edge would go to Ali in a professional fight.\u00a0 Yet, if the fight was held in 1977, Ali was past his prime and Stevenson was still in his.\u00a0 So maybe Stevenson would have the edge.\u00a0 The fight never happened but the debate will never end.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Revolution in the Ring <\/strong><\/em>(2017) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z022824zview_revolutioninthering2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution in the Ring (2017) Director:\u00a0 Jason Sklaver Writer: Jason Sklaver Tagline: None The Plot\u2026 Te\u00f3filo Stevenson was a Cuban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,49,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-sports","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35242,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35241\/revisions\/35242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}